upon hope of life age-during, which God, who doth not lie, did promise before times of ages,

if any one is blameless, of one wife a husband, having children stedfast, not under accusation of riotous living or insubordinate --

for it behoveth the overseer to be blameless, as God's steward, not self-pleased, nor irascible, not given to wine, not a striker, not given to filthy lucre;

whose mouth it behoveth to stop, who whole households do overturn, teaching what things it behoveth not, for filthy lucre's sake.

not giving heed to Jewish fables and commands of men, turning themselves away from the truth;

aged women, in like manner, in deportment as doth become sacred persons, not false accusers, to much wine not enslaved, of good things teachers,

sober, pure, keepers of their own houses, good, subject to their own husbands, that the word of God may not be evil spoken of.

Servants -- to their own masters are to be subject, in all things to be well-pleasing, not gainsaying,

not purloining, but showing all good stedfastness, that the teaching of God our Saviour they may adorn in all things.

of no one to speak evil, not to be quarrelsome -- gentle, showing all meekness to all men,

(not by works that are in righteousness that we did but according to His kindness,) He did save us, through a bathing of regeneration, and a renewing of the Holy Spirit,

and let them learn -- ours also -- to be leading in good works to the necessary uses, that they may not be unfruitful.